The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-19

times. You see how conveniently it is placed
the remark was more humorous than dignihed
Jail is no place for United States Senator.
THE experience of Inspector Byrnes goes to
show thatsan innocent man betrays more confu-
sion and apparent guilt upon being suddenly
charged with a crime than q professional rogue
does.
THERE il no truth in the report that Mrs.
Grant. widow of the late General, is trying to
sell her house in New York city. She hopes to
pass the remainder of her life In her New York
home.
YOUNG lady in New York who was mat
tentive at whist, has broken off her engagement
with her lover because he recommended her to
scoop up her mind in q peanut shell. and nix 1t
on the game"
PINAFoRE-M:KADo Gn.BERTs latest bon mot
addressed to literary circle, is this: ''It is
easy enough for bishops TO be good salaries
OF "a, ooU year. but We have to be good for
nothing-and some Of us are"
OFFENBAcH is dead, his wife is dead, his only
son is dead. and two of his daughters are wild
ows. And now his personal effects have been
auctioned off in Paris His copyrights still pro-
duce more than $40, 900 year.
Boston Courier: women cannot be satrical."
says writer "any more thar they can be
humorous" So2 How is it that when a man,
after counting girl seven years. proposes. she
says: "On George, this is too sudden"
You've Artist displaying a picture)-This
painting is entitled "Jonah and the Whale"
Possible Purchaser-Where is Jonah2 Young
Artist-You Lorice the rather distended appear
ance of the whale midway between the tail and
the neck2 Possible Purchaser-Yes. Young
Artist-That's Jonah.
THE first and only bit OF "Jeffersonian sim
plicity" which the country has yet seen under
Democratic rule was at Bellemeade farm,
Nashville where the President aud his wife ate
at long table on which all the victuals OF the
0nal vnln hnfo fh0 caf w
This glimpse of simplicity deserves to 60 down
to history in gold frame
IT was Randolph Tucker who asked Garfield.
as the General was leaving the cloak-room OF
the House to go to the Chicago convention in
1880, who the Republicans were going to nom
mate? ''It's likely to be anybody,
Ran" replied Garfield. throwing his arm around
fuckers neck. for they were great friends Mr..
Tucker thinks now that Garfield 'epoke by the
card"
IT is said in Washington that Jesse Brown, a
wealthy resident of that city, is paying most
marked attentions to Miss Victoria West, daugh-
ter of Sir Lionel Sackvie West Mr. Brown
went to Europe when the Misses West did, and
his attentions to Miss Victoria were extremely
marked last season. Gossip has il that their
engagement will be announced in Washington
soon after their return to that city.
Mr. BLAINEs wonderful memory for names
as well faces is we'll known. and he declares
that he cultivated the habit in early life by al
ways indexing alphabetically all Names so that
when he meets a face he recognizes the initial
always comes up in his mind and aids him to
recall. the patronymic. Sometimes he cannot
recall the names, and then he contents himself
with addressing the gentleman by his initial
until he secures the name by some casual re-
mark
AsHEvILLE is the only place in North Carolina
where the President and his party will STOP
Asheville is in Buncombe county. The county
was named after Col. Alfred Buncombe, of
Buncombe Hall, near Edenton, who came of a
fine old English family. He raised, equipped
and led regiment in the revolutionary
Fifty years ago the representative from that
county in the State Legislature made fiord
speech a local Issue which he innocently
planned was especially intended for Bancombe.
Thus originated expression which has now a
permanent place in the language.